Shadow Ticket (!)

[j e l]

I've always considered Pyn~chon a Fortean novelist (even his writing before
SLOW LEARNER) which pretty much covers everything you outline below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort

--jel

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM <pynchon-l-request at waste.org> wrote:


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> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:24:11 -0400
> From: J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Cc: Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>, Pynchon List
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> Subject: Re: Shadow Ticket (!)
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> I don?t even check Facebook regularly these days but saw the blurb there
> this morning.
>
> Are all Pynchon?s fiction after the stories in Slow learner  variations on
> something one might describe as Satirical Surrealistic Detective Fiction ?
>
> Is that the genre for industrial civilization? A genre kicked off by Edgar
> Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. The other genre i see here , as old as
> storytelling, is the confrontation with monstrous predatory forces whose
> modern forbears are Faust, Frankensten and supervillains. Anyway,  ?Normal?
> detective fiction and fantasy battles seems to be by far the most common
> genre writing in libraries these days. It?s an odd parallel because Pynchon
> takes the basic usefulness of  investigation/detection into every realm
> about which people are curious including other dimensions and real historic
> characters and events.
>
> Pynchon?s version gets dense,  layered,  thought provoking, horrifying and
> funny in a weird balance between entropy, brilliant satire, history
> reconsidered, paranoia and narrative coherence. Perhaps this approach of
> detection and confrontation with powerful and dangerous organizations,  and
> the resulting dilemma of whether to  seek escape vs  the  fading
> possibility  of public exposure and indictment of crimes is natural to the
> weaponized age we live in.
>
> IFound this in a search but it came with a warning  of possible criminal
> intent.
> Fake tickets, or what is also known as shadow tickets, or tickets with a
> temporary flight schedule or an itinerary, are non-genuine bookings that
> are created mainly to show the existence of a flight reservation.  ???  Are
> these those computer printout tickets you take to the airport to get your
> real ticket?
>
> >> the same image popped into all our heads.
> >>
> >> But remember the video blurb that was released ahead of Bleeding Edge?
> At
> >> the time, if I recall correctly, some of us wondered if it was a parody.
> >> But it really wasn't.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 8:37?AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> At his age the idea of parodying himself possibly has a lot of appeal.
> >>> Can we assume he wrote the blurb?
> >>>
> >>> On 09/04/2025 12:57, Laura Kelber wrote:
> >>>> The description certainly sounds like a Pynchon novel, to the point of
> >>>> parody.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 5:05?AM Michael Bailey <
> >>> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Wow! Yeehaw!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can this be?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 4:39?AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon/
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